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to cross by the old pass, leaving the ponies behind. Through deep 
soft snow, ata level of 19,000 feet, the travelers labored on till 
they reached the summit, whence no way of descent appeared save 
by crossing an icy slope to a cliff too precipitous for ice or snow to 
lodge upon it, and by descending this cliff to more icy slopes below 
it. By making a rope out of every available material, and by 
hewing steps, the descent was at last accomplished without serious 
accident, only to find themselves on an extensive glacier full of 
crevasses. At night they emerged upon a dry spot, but on the next 
day they crossed the great Baltoro Glacier, and it took two days 
more before they reached the village of Askoli. Supplies were sent 
back to the coolies with the ponies, and seven weeks later this part 
of the caravan reached Skardo by the Karakoram Pass route. 
Arrica.—Brrrish Basuro Lanp.—The August issue of the 
Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society contains a map and 
an account of that part of Basuto Land that was saved to the Basuto 
in 1868. It is bounded by the Orange Free State, Natal, and Cape 
Colony. From the first of these it is divided for 130 miles by the 
Caledon river, and the country between this stream and the Dra- 
kensberg has been known to Europeans for some fifty years, while 
the larger section of the district, comprising the basin of the head- 
waters of the Orange river, has been little explored. The Drakens- 
berg, which continues northward from Basuto Land into the Trans- 
vaal, appears to have originally been a sandstone plateau eight to 
ten thousand feet in height, the upper ‘stratum of coarse friable rock 
sloping to the south and west, but falling away in perpendicular 
cliffs to the eastward. The range is now everywhere intersected by 
streams which have cut courses for themselves two to three thou- 
sand feet below the normal level of the mountains, A swamp about 
a mile across, at an elevation of 9,560 feet, gives rise to the Sengu, 
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ushman is shown victorious. He is drawing the bow with tiny 
hands, or balancing himself on mapay feet, rg ean the assagai. 
big hands, fleeing on calfless legs stuck like broom-handles into the 
middle of their feet, and in the rear appear Bushwomen and boys. 
ving herds of horses and cattle, the spoils of victory. 
